The Play BBC/NPR Hourly News Summary AppleScripts from web site Doug's AppleScripts make it easy to automatically get the latest news delivered and playing in iTunes on your Mac.

For those of you unfamiliar with Doug's AppleScripts, it's a giant repository of AppleScripts (currently 419 in total) designed to improve your iTunes experience by automating repetitive tasks and adding cool functions to your iTunes toolbox. The BBC/NPR scripts are applets that remain open all day, monitoring the status of the latest hourly news report from its respective source. When the report is available, the script will queue up the report to be played as soon as you're ready for it (immediately if you're listening to nothing). This is a great way to keep up with the latest news from NPR or the BBC without having to put in the effort to look up, download, and play the latest.